{"id":39002,"date":"2009-11-09T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091109\/1239186856.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-09T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T04:30:00","slug":"youtube-using-russian-police-officer-fired-for-whistleblowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/39002","title":{"rendered":"YouTube-Using Russian Police Officer Fired For Whistleblowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about the internet these days is that it gives a platform for people who had no voice before to speak out.  Of course, there are certain risks associated with that.  Apparently a police officer in the Russian port of Novorossiisk put up a YouTube video accusing his superiors of corruption.  The video got lots of attention (over 200,000 views) leading Russia&#8217;s Interior Ministor (who is responsible for the police) to start a probe.  That probe apparently lasted all of two hours before it ended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/technologyNews\/idUSTRE5A71OV20091109?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=technologyNews\" >and the police officer who made the video was fired<\/a>.  Of course, many will assume that this was punishing a whistleblower, which certainly sounds plausible &#8212; though, an argument could also be made that if the guy really was making stuff up, that&#8217;s pretty bad as well.  Either way, it is a reminder that just because you have a platform to speak out (whether legitimately or not), it doesn&#8217;t mean there aren&#8217;t consequences for doing so (as unfair as those consequences might be in some cases).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091109\/1239186856.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091109\/1239186856.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091109\/1239186856&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=fcab53ca5dbfa16d474f401659d27c87&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=fcab53ca5dbfa16d474f401659d27c87&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=u9QMiMqS3qI:YYfcG8T-XFg:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=u9QMiMqS3qI:YYfcG8T-XFg:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=u9QMiMqS3qI:YYfcG8T-XFg:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/u9QMiMqS3qI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about the internet these days is that it gives a platform for people who had no voice before to speak out. Of course, there are certain risks associated with that. Apparently a police officer in the Russian port of Novorossiisk put up a YouTube video accusing his superiors of corruption. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}